On November 4, 1995, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was gunned down—not by a foreign enemy, but by one of his own. 👉 The assassin was Yigal Amir, a far-right Israeli extremist tied to nationalist and religious circles that fiercely opposed Rabin’s peace efforts. His motive was simple and chilling: stop the Oslo Accords, the fragile framework that Rabin had forged with PLO leader Yasser Arafat for a two-state solution. ⚠️ And it wasn’t random. Rabin had been vilified by right-wing politici

Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on November 4, 1995, by Yigal Amir, an Israeli right-wing extremist. The assassination occurred at a peace rally in Tel Aviv, where Rabin had delivered a speech in support of the Oslo Accords. Amir opposed Rabin’s peace initiatives, believing that the concessions to the Palestinians were a betrayal of Jewish claims to the land. He saw his actions as a way to stop the peace process, motivated by a religious and nationalist perspective. The assassination shocked the

Thirty years ago, Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn as the first Oslo Accords were signed. On the surface, the accords were meant to kick off a peace process and lead to eventual Palestinian statehood. In reality, the Oslo Accords paved the way for Israel to cement its control over most aspects of Palestinian life, land, and resources. Today, three decades after that iconic handshake, many Palestinians say they’re worse off than before the accords were signed, a